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[Today's post comes to us courtesy David Fabritius from Windows Server Marketing]
Hi everyone,
I'm writing today about a significant milestone for Windows Small Business Server (Windows SBS). With the new Windows Server 2012 line up, Windows Small...

Today, Windows Server 2012 Essentials has reached the release to manufacturing (RTM) milestone. The product is being delivered to our hardware and ecosystem partners, and it will be generally available in all channels on November 1, with OEM partners...

We have received a few reports of hotfix 948110 causing issues with SharePoint (Companyweb) on SBS 2003. At this time please hold off on installing this patch on your SBS 2003 server. Installing this hotfix may prevent the SharePoint WMSDE instance from...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Curtis Lee, Director, Server and Cloud Marketing ] “Microsoft provides that forward thinking that I use in my company every day with our client design solutions. ” --Stan Bovetz, President of Frost Engineering Service...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support]
One of the most requested features for the SBS Monitoring component of Windows SBS 2008 and Windows SBS 2011 Standard is the ability to control...

Today Microsoft is announcing the Windows Essential Server Solutions family of products. The family includes Windows Small Business Server 2008, formerly known as code name "Cougar" and Windows Essential Business Server 2008, formerly...

This is a pretty rough draft that we wanted to get out to our community as soon as possible so we can help tackle this issue and hopefully save people long hours of troubleshooting. It is aimed at a mid to high IT level, so if you have any doubts and...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre, Damian Leibaschoff, Chris Puckett, and Justin Crosby]
We have been seeing cases where the users are losing network connectivity with their SBS 2008 server after a few days to a few weeks. Rebooting...

On behalf of the SBS team, I am extremely pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server 2008 software has been finalized! Today both SBS Standard and Premium are being released to manufacturing, which means we begin the process of finalizing...

Hi there. My name is Jason Anderson, Group Program Manager with the Windows Server Essentials team, and I’m super excited to announce the availability of the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Preview and the Windows Server Essentials Experience server...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay, Damian Leibaschoff, Justin Crosby and Chris Puckett] Some customers have reported seeing random problems with services after installing MS08-037. In one case, Exchange Always Up To Date notifications...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Joe Nalewabau from Windows Server Essentials Team] Great news! We reached another important milestone on the road to the final release of Windows Server 2012 Essentials: the Release Candidate (RC) is available now...

Since we announced the availability of the beta version of Windows Small Business Server Code name “Aurora” and Windows Small Business Server “7”, both products have been downloaded more than 9000 times through both our partner and customer community...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Edwin Joseph]
SBS 2008 includes a brand new version of the POP3 connector. This post will introduce key elements in understanding how this version differs from previous versions and how to implement...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff and Wayne Gordon McIntyre from Commercial Technical Support and Chris Puckett from Product Quality ]
SBS 2008 installs all of its features using a single volume (C:), there are tools available...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett from Product Quality]
Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 Update Rollup 4 is now available on Microsoft Update and WSUS. This rollup package addresses the following issues in Windows Small Business...

We have received reports of customers loosing Internet connectivity after installing MS08-037 (951748 and 951746). This issue can occur on both the server and the clients. This issue may occur when customers are running ZoneAlarm or Check...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Mike Lieser] Recently we have been seeing two different issues on SBS servers that can be caused by the 3 rd party product Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 . Please note that these issues can also be caused...

When we first started designing Windows SBS 2011 Essentials (formally SBS Code Name “Aurora”), one of our initial focuses was to provide effortless support for multiple internal and external hard drives. Drive Extender provided the ability...

Hi, I am Chungang Liu, working as a program manager with Windows Server 2012 Essentials team. In this post, I would like to show you how My Server app for windows phone is designed and how it can be used to boost the efficiency of managing and accessing...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy Joe Nalewabau from Windows Server Essentials Team ] Now that the beta for Windows Server 2012 Essentials (Essentials 2012) has been released, many customers and partners have asked for a “feature list” for Essentials...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Michael Leworthy from Windows Server Marketing] We are happy to announce that today , a few weeks after Windows Small Businesses Server 2011 Standard was released to manufacturing, you can download an evaluation copy...

[Todays post comes to us courtesy of Enrico Toro, Product Manager of Server and Cloud Platform Marketing.] “SBS 2011 Essentials is so much more than just a network attached hard drive. You don't even realize how many things you can run on the server that...